Verba Ultima: Order or Freedom? On the Plurality of Binding Patterns of Behavior and Their Systems

Abstract

Challenging the popular dichotomy of law and morals, the author puts forward the thesis of a plurality of binding patterns of behavior, law being one of them. In the system of norms of the global organization of society, the state plays a coordinating role. State sovereignty is constantly shrinking, squeezed as it is by the growing density of international relations, the push toward decentralization and the proliferation of organized crime. Thus, it is necessary to couple the emerging new international order with new diversified binding patterns of behavior. The implementation of a new normative infrastructure for mankind's social organization is a matter of survival. The alternative is Kant's fight for lasting peace on global, regional and national levels or perishing by installments.